Around the middle of the 2000’s I went through a phase of writing novels where the characters were individuals but also representatives of cultural or social archetypes. In retrospect, it was a slightly flawed phase of my writing life, and I look back on it with mixed feelings.
Two novels were published of this type: The Rat & The Serpent (initially as ‘…
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